Browsing Theses by Supervisor "Steiner, Stefan"

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Estimating Risk-adjusted Process Performance with a Bias/Variance Trade-off

Cooper Barfoot, Patricia L (University of Waterloo, 2017-01-12)

Decision makers responsible for managing the performance of a process commonly base their decisions on an estimate of present performance, a comparison of estimates across multiple streams, and the trend in performance ...
Statistical Learning Approaches to Some Classification Problems

Gweon, Hyukjun (University of Waterloo, 2017-08-01)

Classification is essential in statistical learning. This thesis deals with three topics in classification: multi-label classification, nonparametric multi-class classification and a special type of text categorization ...
Statistical Methods in the Search for a Dominant Cause of Variation

Panahi, Mahsa (University of Waterloo, 2023-12-15)

Excessive variation in critical-to-quality characteristics, referred to as process outputs in this thesis, is a common issue in manufacturing industries. Most variation reduction frameworks initially investigate the process ...